When You're Researching You're Learning.

Every Corny Thing That's Said About Living With Nature - Being In Harmony With The Earth, Feeling The Cycle Of The Seasons - Happens To Be True.

My Ace In The Hole As A Human Being Used To Be My Capacity For Remembering Birthdays. I Worked At It. Whenever I Made A New Friend, I Made A Point Of Finding Out His Or Her Birthday Early On, And I Would Record It In My Filofax Calendar.

I Think On A Day-to-day Basis, What Attracts Us In Coexisting With Another Living, Evolving Thing, Is That You Have A Relationship That's Different Than With A Piece Of Furniture. We Experience The Cycle Of Life Through These Other Beings.

I Think The Real Reason Is That Life Has No Meaning. I Mean, No Obvious Meaning. You Wake Up, You Go To Work, You Do Stuff. I Think Everybody's Always Looking For Something A Little Unusual That Can Preoccupy Them And Help Pass The Time.

Writing About Unknown People Means I Spend A Lot Of Time Arguing To The Reader About Why It's Worth Knowing About Them. That's Challenging, But Then The Piece Is Pure Discovery.